Zinc Chan Designs The Icono Phone

Tags: Communications, Fixed Line, Icono Phone, Telephone, Zinc Chan

Designer Zinc Chan believes that the old fixed line phones are not out of fashion and they are by no means redundant. He has created a cool design called the Icono Phone, which brings back the home phone to life. If you were getting annoyed with dialing the numbers on the old fashioned phone, the cool new design by Zinc Chan allows you to draw the associated design for the person you are calling, and voila!, you can talk to the person as the phone dials.

All you got to do is draw points of light that go with numeric assignments. The handset also attaches onto your thumb and also your little finger, which apparently is the Hawaiian symbol for a hand gesture.

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BirdWing: Futuristic Neo Car

Tags: BirdWing, car, Neo Car, Nissan Teana

BirdWing is the name to the new concept car from Nissan Teana brought in this year. It is like a butterfly, beautiful from outside but intricate and complex inside. The car has a shiny metallic body in eye-catching colors. With a wheelbase of 3150mm and an overall height of 1485mm, it is passenger car that looks trendy and stylish. On the inner side, there’s a butterfly shaped steering wheel and is outfitted by automatic driving and media system. It also has a head up HUD display and a dim-light LED. It looks spacious and accommodates four. BirdWing appears to be a promising design for the future.

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Scientists May Install Space Elevators In A Couple Of Decades

Tags: Elevators, futuristic, High Tech, NASA, Space Elevator, Spacecrafts

Here is a unique design that might help us to climb the ladders to space. The project, called the ‘Space elevator’ may help us to climb a metaphoric staircase that would help everyone to visit space and experience astronomic journeys. Scientists from the three major continents are working on a design, which may help you reach the sky, literally. It all boils down to the theory of inertia which means that if something should keep it’s velocity in one straight line, as long as it is not tampered with or external force is not applied. This means the cable will be stretched straight and the elevator ends up being in a geostationary orbit.

The cable would go up to the sky and connect to a satellite, which would be in space. This could help dispose off nuclear waste and also help normal people to experience space travel. There even is a $4 million prize for the one that designs a safe space elevator. It needs material that would span 30,000 kms.

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A Personal Sub Concept To Take On The Deep waters

Tags: boats, C-Quester Submersible, Personal Subs, spaceships, Submarines, vehicles, water

Like always, we are interested in subs and especially those that are designed in a unique fashion. We just found a concept for a Personal Submarine C-Quester Submersible, which looks like a promising design. The chic contours and the high tech look reminds you of a space ship that you might have seen in your dreams or possibly in a movie.

It comes in metallic colors and the inner segment can hold a pair of passengers. It would be interesting to know what this concept might turn out to be, when manufactured. For now, we have no information either about it’s pricing or if it is ever going to be manufactured.

I would say, the personal submarine may encourage people to go into hiding in deep blue waters far away from everyone else. But Imagine being stuck with a boring lo0ver or evn a psychotic lover! It kinda sends shivers down my spine.

Via: Tuvie

A Single-Seater Helicopter Design

Tags: Automobiles, chopper, Concept, Helicopter, Igarishi Design, Learn To Fly, transport

Ever wondered what its like to have your own helicopter and watch all the fun from the top? Well, now you could go ahead and buy a helicopter for yourself, thanks to a concept designed by Igarishi Design. However, you will need to wait till the concept gets manufactured.

This private helicopter is a single seater, which means you will need to know how to fly a helicopter before you try flying one. The flyer may need to know the basics of physics and chemistry and how the technology works as well. You obviously wouldn’t be able to fly it without any training.

The design strangely reminds me of a weird alien craft and looks pretty cool. It is small and worth trying, if you think you can fly your own helicopter. Moreover, it isn’t everyday you find a design where a helicopter looks like an alien robot or craft and is meant for a single passenger. I hope it gets manufactured soon!

Via: LikeCool/ ID-Performance

Adam Brodowski Designs the Sook: A Futuristic Kitchen Assistant

Tags: Adam Brodowski, Concept, Designer, dinner design, Futuristic Kitchen, kitchen technology, Sook, Wireless Kitchen

Designing futuristic kitchens have been an area of interest for many talented designers. Adam Brodowski seems to like staying connected when he is in the kitchen, and hence, has created the “Sook” a wireless kitchen assistant concept. The Sook Cut can measure weight and moisture of the ingredients being cut/chopped on the board and is more like a real assistant in flesh and blood, except that it doesn’t talk out loud. The Sook Cut transmits the information to the Sook Touch to generate a recipe. The Sook Touch lets you touch and drag to display and share your recipes. Thus you do not have to run to your PC every time you need a recipe. You can also discard all those boring recipe books stashed in the cupboard.

Interestingly, the design lets you stay in touch with your friends on social networking websites with the help of the Internet. The most interesting feature of the design has to be the electronic tongue, which tastes the food, thanks to the sensors and examines if the ingredients are mixed properly and if anything has to be added. If you would like to know how your mother-in-law always ends up making better apple pie than you, just place some near the Sook Dock, and then you will get all the secret ingredients listed out, thanks to the RFID scanner.

So much for your mother-in-law’s meanness! Adam must be years ahead of us to think about all the features that you may need in a kitchen. However, like most concepts, this might take a while to be manufactured, or if Adam isn’t lucky, it never might get manufactured.

Via Tuvie

Lotus Room: Future Room by Zaha Hadid Arhitects

Tags: futuristic, Lotus, room, Venice Architecture Biennale, zaha hadid

Rooms of the future are going to be unlike nothing you ever expected. You might have heard of Lotus rooms before, but it probably put into your mind smoke filled dim lit rooms packed with people sitting around with lit stubs in their fingers or hookahs hanging from limp hands. The Lotus room of the future, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, will clear your mind in a jiffy and transport you to a world where things contract and expand as you wish.

The Lotus room can fluctuate between two states of either expansion or contraction, allowing you to choose between rooms that are spacey or condensed, appearing to be cocoon from the outside world. The mobile status of the room is achieved by interwoven layers which fold and unfold to provide furniture when the room expands when desired. The concept leaves the owner with a flexible ever-changing view of the room. The Lotus room will be on show between the 10th and 23rd of this November at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale.

Via: Yatzer

Greg Zanis Designs Dream car 123 Which Looks Like A Pyramid

Tags: Deam Car 123, Fuel Efficiency, Greg Zanis, Pyramid

Sometimes, the weirdest designs get all the attention and that too for very good reasons. Here is a car that looks like a pyramid but is actually an energy saving monster. It was created by Sugar Crove inventor Greg Zanis and the Dream car 123 can reach 40mph. You just have to charge for 3.5 hours and you could drive for 240 miles and the electricity cost would be worth $5.

The car is designed with 80 lead-acid batteries and the pyramid can make 360 degree turn on a dime. This car can contain a single passenger and also is bullet proof. So, in case thugs decide to try their new gun and choose your car because it looks so weird, you are safe inside it. If you need special attention at night and worry that the pyramidical shape isn’t visible at night, then you can switch on the neon lights and attract all the attention in the world. This weird car costs $24,000.

Via: TechnaBob

La Princesse: Giant Mechanical Spider Spreads Fear in Liverpool

Tags: acromantula, François Delarozière, La Princesse, Liverpool, mechanical spider, spider, tourism

Move over Spiderman. The real spiders are here to take over the world, well, at least Liverpool. A 50 foot mechanical spider has been erected on the walls of a building about to be demolished. The spider is set to wake up from its hibernation on Sunday, crawl down the walls of the building and terrorise the people of Liverpool, creating havoc around its streets. And all this in the name of tourism. Somehow, I think someone made a typo while releasing a press report. The idea of a giant spider roaming around the streets seems more to evoke terror-ism than tourism!

The spider, named La Princesse, cost £1.5 million, weights 37 tons is made with 50 hydraulic axes of movement. It even includes a few seats on its back because, really, a lot of people would want to ride this monster. François Delarozière, the creator of La Princesse, has been keeping pretty quiet about the appearance of his monster lab creation, and most of the public were unaware that a giant spider would be set loose amongst them until it made its appearance on the walls of the building. No idea yet on what would happen when Delarozière decides to create a mate for his acromantula.

Via: DeputyDog

Fridge that fortifies your food with Vitamins

Tags: hitachi, refrigerator

You get up in the morning all joyful, wanting to cook you and your family a yummy cheese salad along with their favourite pasta. And why not, after all the broccoli and veggies that you could not prepare yesterday owing to a last minute emergency call to your office needs to be eaten, right?
But when you open the fridge, you realise that veggies area all spoilt and you will have to eat out of the can this morning also. In today’s fast paced life, who has time to inspect if your veggies are stored at the right temperature or the beef is lying in the right shelf? Not you and me.
So, if Hitachi is giving us a sensitive fridge that takes charge of all that, I don’t understand why it should annoy the tech pundits! Well, let them fuss about it while I tell you how this little invention can help us.

In Japan, Hitachi is developing a never before kind of refrigerator that automatically sprays your food with chemicals to make them stay fresh for a longer time. RY6000 and RY5400, the twin wonder towers have sensors that can detect what exactly is being stored in the refrigerator so that it can shower your eatable with the right amount of vitamins and nutrients to kill the bacteria. Now, that’s what I call sixth sense!

Via techradar